Making a new conlang!

Workshop Conlanging
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It’s been a while since ive done any serious conlanging, so I’m gonna try again (maybe if i show progress to others I’ll be able to stick with a project this time.

I’ve messed around with a few a posteriori conlangs before, and I find them really fun, but I don’t really want to do a romance or germanic-based one, but I don’t really know that much about other language branches. I think I’m interested in making an austronesian language or maybe a tibeto-burman one, but I don’t really know where to find information on them, especially the latter.
Does anyone have any resources on either of those language families? I’d appreciate anything you’ve got.

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For Proto-Austronesian vocabulary, I know of Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - PAN Index

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You may want to collaborate with an Austronesian language speaker or study a few Austronesian languages first to avoid possible pitfalls like misrepresenting or appropriating or reinforcing stereotypes or reducing the languages to an aesthetic accessory.

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I’ve heard that Paiwan preserves most Proto-Austronesian phonemes and is thus highly important for reconstruction purposes. For grammar, I’ve heard that Amis is closest to Proto-Austronesian.

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oh my friend is paiwan! she doesn't speak the language but it's still cool to hear about my friend's ethnic group in the wild

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Have you told her how massive the Austronesian language family is, and how similar her family's native language is to the one it all comes from?

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Maybe this will be useful for anyone trying to take Austronesian languages as inspiration:
ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online.

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i have! i don't think she completely followed but she seemed to think it was cool
sadly the concept of language families as a whole can often be quite a feldspar moment for those of us who care more about this stuff...

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